A27064:966
Universal redemption of mankind, by the Lord Jesus Christ stated and cleared by the…
Universal redemption of mankind, by the Lord Jesus Christ stated and cleared by the late learned Mr. Richard Barter [sic] ; whereunto is added a short account of Special redemption, by the same author.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1694
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Answ. 1. That they were illuminated, and partakers of the Holy Ghost, and sanctified by Christs Blood the Text speaks without strained consequence: (with Heb. 6. 6. But that they had true special saving Faith, Regeneration or Sanctification, I affirm not. Yet was it true.
2. Is it a strained consequence to conclude,
1. That he who by Apostasy is fallen into that misery which he was never in before, and other sinners are not in, that now there is no more Sacrifice for his sin, had before a Sacrifice? And so have other sinners that be not fallen so far as he is?
1. That he who by Apostacy is fallen into that misery which he was never in before, and other sinners are not in, that now there is no more Sacrifice for his sin, had before a Sacrifice? And so have other sinners that be not fallen so far as he is?
2. Or that he who is sanctified by the Blood of the Covenant, was one whose sins caused that Blood? and for whom it was shed? If you had proved that it sanctifieth those for whom it was never shed, then you had done something; so much for this Text. I had thought to have answered all the objections of the contrary-minded which the Books at hand afford; but I shall do far less than I thought to do in it, as finding that they are so disordered, wordy and weak, in many, that I shall but fill Paper with needless Lines, and be tedious and ungrateful to the judicious Readers.